Mixer for gaseous fluids.



F. F. THOMPSON.

MIXER FOR GASBOUS FLUIDS APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18, 1911.

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A TTORNEYS FREDERICK FOSTER THOMPSON, OF LAWTON, OKLAHOMA.

MIXER FOR GASEOUS FLUIDS.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Feb. 2'7, 1912.

Application filed June 16, 1911. Serial No. 633,477.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK F. THOMP- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lawton, in the county of Comanche and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mixers for Gaseous Fluids, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the perfecting of the vaporization and mixing with air of the liquid fuel used in explosion engines. No carbureter now in use does this vaporizing and mixing except in a more or less faulty manner, with the result that many defects appear in the Work of the engine, namely: 1, failure to develop normal degree of power; 2, failure to run smoothly or at all, when throttled very low; 3, undue consumption of gasolene in proportion to mileage; 4, large deposits of carbon in engine; 5, diificulty in starting, especially in cold Weather; 6, back-firing through carbureter, with attendant danger.

My invention in its embodiment, is inserted between the carbureter and the engine, in the intake pipe, of any explosion engine, said carbureter and intake pipe being of ordinary construction.

My invention is designed to supplement the work of the carbureter on any explosion engine, and overcomes all the defects due to imperfect carburetion, as named above.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a vertical section of an intake pipe provided with the improvement, the improvement also being shown in section; Fig. 2 is a view of the central supporting rod; Figs. 3 and 4c are sections on the lines 33 and 4.4 re spectively of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings, (slight variations being hereinafter described) the improvement comprises a tube 1 of perforated material or wire cloth which is inserted in the body 2 of the intake pipe of the engine, said tube 1 being about five (5) inches long. Within this tube 1 is a helical vane 12 of equal length with the tube 1 and having its free edge adjacent to the inner face of the tube 1.

This special vane 12 is made of the perforated material,or wire cloth, and is sup-- ported through its axis by a rod 7. Said rod 7 extends enough beyond either end of the vane 12 to permit the forming of a loop or eye 8 through which the supporting screw 13 passes. The supporting screw 13 is inserted from the outside of the intake pipe 2 and extends diametrically across and through it nearly or quite to the opposite. slde, engaging the loop in end of axial rod 7.

It should be understood that the device is supported at only one end, it being immaterial which end, they being alike.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A device of the character specified, adapted to be inserted in the intake of an explosion engine between the carbureter and the explosion chamber, and comprising a cylinder or tube of perforate material, a rod arranged axially of the tube, and a helical wing or vane of perforate material supported by the rod within the tube, the outer edge of the wing or vane contacting with the inner face of the tube, said rod having means at each end for the attachment of sup-. porting means for the tube.

In'testimony whereof I have signed my 

